Read this book for a telling glimpse of the effects of an EMP strike.
Posted on 03/29/2017 5:00:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons. False reassurance is given to the American people that North Korea has not “demonstrated” that it can miniaturize a nuclear warhead small enough for missile delivery, or build a reentry vehicle for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of penetrating the atmosphere to blast a U.S. city.
Yet any nation that has built nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, as North Korea has done, can easily overcome the relatively much simpler technological challenge of warhead miniaturization and reentry vehicle design.
Indeed, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been photographed posing with what appears to be a genuine miniaturized nuclear warhead for ballistic missiles. And North Korea does, in fact, have two classes of ICBMs—the road mobile KN-08 and KN-14—which both appear to be equipped with sophisticated reentry vehicles.
Even if it were true that North Korea does not yet have nuclear missiles, their “Dear Leader” could deliver an atomic bomb hidden on a freighter sailing under a false flag into a U.S. port, or hire their terrorist allies to fly a nuclear 9/11 suicide mission across the unprotected border with Mexico. In this scenario, populous port cities like New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, or big cities nearest the Mexican border, like San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, and Santa Fe, would be most at risk.
A Hiroshima-type A-Bomb having a yield of 10-kilotons detonated in a major city would cause about 200,000 casualties from blast, thermal, and radiation effects. North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon having an estimated yield of 20-30 kilotons. The Defense Department assesses that on January 6, 2016, North Korea may have tested components of an H-Bomb. H-Bombs are much more powerful than A-Bombs and can produce much greater casualties—millions of casualties in a big city like New York.
The notion that North Korea is testing A-Bombs and H-Bomb components, but does not yet have the sophistication to miniaturize warheads and make reentry vehicles for missile delivery is absurd.
Eight years ago, in 2008, the CIA's top East Asia analyst publicly stated North Korea successfully miniaturized nuclear warheads for delivery on its Nodong medium-range missile. The Nodong is able to strike South Korea and Japan or, if launched off a freighter, even the United States.
In 2011, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lt. General Ronald Burgess, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that North Korea has weaponized its nuclear devices into warheads for arming ballistic missiles.
On April 7, 2015, at a Pentagon press conference, Admiral William Gortney, then Commander of North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), responsible for protecting the U.S. from long-range missiles, warned that the intelligence community assesses North Korea's KN-08 mobile ICBM could strike the U.S. with a nuclear warhead.
And on October 7, 2015, Gortney again warned the Atlantic Council: "I agree with the intelligence community that we assess that they [North Koreans] have the ability, they have the weapons, and they have the ability to miniaturize those weapons, and they have the ability to put them on a rocket that can range the [U.S.] homeland."
In February and March of 2015, former senior national security officials of the Reagan and Clinton administrations warned that North Korea should be regarded as capable of delivering by satellite a small nuclear warhead, specially designed to make a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack against the United States. According to the Congressional EMP Commission, a single warhead delivered by North Korean satellite could blackout the national electric grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures for over a year—killing 9 of 10 Americans by starvation and societal collapse.
Two North Korean satellites, the KMS-3 and KMS-4, presently orbit over the U.S. on trajectories consistent with surprise EMP attack.
Why do the press and public officials ignore or under-report these facts? Perhaps no administration wants to acknowledge that North Korea is an existential threat on their watch.
Whatever the motives for obfuscating the North Korean nuclear threat, the need to protect the American people is immediate and urgent:
The U.S. must be prepared to preempt North Korea by any means necessary—including nuclear weapons.
Launch a crash program to harden against EMP attack the U.S. electric grid to preserve American civilization and hundreds of millions of lives. This could be part of President Trump’s infrastructure modernization project.
Beef up national missile defenses. Revive President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the unfairly derided “Star Wars.” Space-based missile defenses could still render nuclear missiles obsolete and offer a permanent, peaceful, solution to problems like North Korea.
“Two North Korean satellites, the KMS-3 and KMS-4, presently orbit over the U.S. on trajectories consistent with surprise EMP attack.”
Probably have already been mined by the XB-37.
So how do they get to 90%? I can see why a large city might become a deathtrap, but most of us don't live in large cities.
Maybe this analysis helps explain why the CIA can't find its *** with both hands.
They're so far behind the technological curve that any threat they may make needs to be mocked..............
I’ve said this, too. Right now, lil Kim is fat and happy, and probably has no health problems, so he isn’t prone to suicide. But all the while, his scientists are working to build better, bigger bombs and better delivery systems. And then what if he falls ill, or simply decides he is getting old and doesn’t care if he goes out with a bang, as long as he takes a large chunk of the rest of the world with him? There is no easy answer, and several administrations have just ignored it.
Probably because he’s no real threat. If he were,he would have been droned by now.
This is neo-con beating of the war drums for profit, and naught else.
Read this book for a telling glimpse of the effects of an EMP strike.
We sent a man to the moon with 1970’s CRTs
Why don’t we use a Stuxnet computer virus that was used to attack Iran’s nuclear program?
Yes WE did........And where did N. Korea send THEIR man?
“”[north] Korea is likely still using 1980’s CRT’s for its computer monitors””
CRTs? They have electricity?
I have read some of his stuff. He has never come off as an anti-American globalists, just the opposite. And an EMP attack has been written about for the past, at least, twenty years. I have read even more in-depth how-to’s.
The world Obama left is very dangerous and dark. The MSM and democrat fools better hope that President Trump and Putin get along.
Scary book. Yes, many have advocated hardening the grid. I don’t think the “unwashed” would panic if it was done. Most are too ignorant to understand what it would mean. As long as the TV turns on, they’re fine with everything.
They knew Odumbo and Hitlery would just pay them off to shut them up for another few months. It has been going on for years.
“Yet any nation that has built nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, as North Korea has done, can easily overcome the relatively much simpler technological challenge of warhead miniaturization and reentry vehicle design.”
That’s false. It’s much harder to miniaturize and make a reentry vehicle than to make a primitive fission bomb like North Korea has. The hardest part about making a primitive fission bomb is getting the fissionable material.
The advanced metallurgy needed make the reentry vehicle is really hard stuff to master.
Actually it’s a bit stiffer than that.
Didn’t you hear...Little Kim went to the Sun and back in one day!
Instead of cash, the U.S. should have been sending Large boxes of Chocolates to little Kim.
OK let give NK a Nuke. Drop it from a B52.
So how do they get to 90%? I can see why a large city might become a deathtrap, but most of us don’t live in large cities.”
As far as the elites are concerned the cityfolk represent 90 percent of the population. The inland empire dwellers are not considered real people.
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